1. Committee on Earth Observation Satellites
The CEOS Ocean Variables Enabling Research and Applications for GEO (COVERAGE) Initiative:
Status Overview
Drs. Eric Lindstrom, Vardis Tsontos & Jorge Vazquez
NASA
SIT Tech Workshop 2017 Agenda Item #21
VC-WG Day
CEOS Strategic Implementation Team Tech Workshop
ESA/ESRIN, Frascati, Italy
13th-14th September 2017

2. COVERAGE Project Activities
Advisory Board Formulation
Terms of Reference developed, Letters of Invitation dispatched, Acceptances received
Composition representative of stakeholder groups with an interest in COVERAGE
Cross-CEOS Agency, Ocean VCs, WGISS, GEO-ocean projects, GOOS
Next step: Kick-off telecon (TBD)
Board Member
Affiliations & Applicability to COVERAGE
Andrew Mitchell
NASA/EOSDIS
CEOS-WGISS/FDA
Philippe Escudier (interim, 6 months)
CNES
CEOS-OST VC
Paul DiGiacomo
NOAA
GEO-Blue Planet
CEOS-OCR VC
Tony Lee
NASA/JPL
CEOS-OSVW VC
NASA OSST-
Helen Beggs
Aus.Met.Bureau
CEOS-SST VC
IMOS
Frank Muller-Karger
USF
GEO-MBON
Tim Moltmann
UTas
GOOS
David Freestone
SSC
COVERAGE Sargasso Sea pilot study
EU Copernicus Marine - TBD
EUMETSAT - TBD

3. COVERAGE Project Activities
Stakeholder Engagement since April 2017
Blue Planet – meetings at 3rd BP symposium, 31 May-2 June
SST-VC – GHRSST meeting, June 5-9: discussions with VC co-chairs
IMOS – telecon on 29 June with T. Moltmann
NASA/EOSDIS – meeting at JPL, 2 Aug. with A. Mitchell
CNES – meeting at JPL, 11 Aug. with P. Escudier, T. Guinle, J. Lambin
MBON – meeting at MBARI, 10 Aug. F. Muller-Karger (USF) & G. Canonico (NOAA/IOOS)
SSC - telecon on 1 Sep. with Sargasso Sea Commission Secretariat (D. Freestone)
Presentations
3rd Blue Planet Symposium (Maryland, USA) – E. Lindstrom
GHRSST XVIII Science Team Meeting (Qingdao, China) – J. Vazquez
NOAA Coastwatch Annual meeting (California, USA) – V. Tsontos & J. Vazquez
IOOS-Animal Telemetry Network (ATN) meeting (California, USA) - V. Tsontos
Upcoming: Copernicus Marine Week American Geophysical Union 2017 Fall Conference Ocean Sciences 2018

4. COVERAGE Project Next Steps
Project Initiation
COVERAGE Phase A project funded with NASA PO-program support (3-yr commitment)
Project core team assembled
Project management & documentation infrastructure implemented leveraging ECC
Workshop series proposal in process in collaboration with Sargasso Sea Commission
Phase A work plan key elements (6 months):
Detailed technical scoping, use case gathering & requirements analysis
Inventory of target datasets, providers, interfaces
COVERAGE system technical architecture, including CEOS and data provider interoperability considerations
Collaborative arrangements
Ongoing stakeholder engagement

5. Draft Implementation Plan
COVERAGE has a 4-part development concept:
Phase A - preliminary arrangements & detailed scoping (6 months)
Phase B - implementation for limited COVERAGE prototype system (1 year)
(focus on data streams of co-located gridded data sets from the 4 ocean VCs)
Phase C - development of full COVERAGE system (1 year)
Phase D - integration & testing, deployment & evaluation of finalized COVERAGE system (6 months)
Preliminary COVERAGE milestone timeline from CEOS Work plan document (May 2017)